Plane Photos

By now, if you have paid any attention to my blog, you will have noticed I like to have a window seat when I fly in a plane. One of my main motivations is I enjoy taking photos while hovering miles over our planet.  Of course, given airplane windows are double paned  and often have dings in them, the photo quality isn't the best. Then of course, there are the times

when the window seat one gets is by the wing and you end up with the wing dominating all you photos.

Regardless of all this, I just did a flight from Oregon to New Jersey and back. Hogging a window both directions, I took several photos along the journey. Here are a few of them I thought you might like.

Sky and Clouds

Mt. Hood

Great Lakes

Midway Airport

Chicago

Airplane hanging from airport ceiling

Mythical Battlestar Galactica Snow Globe

For yahrens (years) I have known of it's existence, but had never seen one. Frequently I searched yard sales and e-bay with no luck. I only knew of one person who owned one, actually four to be exact. Finally after decades of waiting and searching, I am proud to say I have added the Universal Studios Battlestar Galactica souvenir snow globe to my sci-fi collection.

The item retailed back in 1986 for a $1 (the sticker on the bottom says so). The one I now possess has no water left instead, but that doesn't surprise me given BG went off the air in 1979 (I don't count the other two shows at all).

The toy is amusing as it has two cylons sitting on a teeter-tooter.  I hope it amuses you as much as it does me.

Battlestar Galactica Universal Studios Snow Globe

Backyard Archaeology

Spring has arrived and so has the time to pull weeds and garden. I have discovered as I do so, I find many usual things in my yard, clearly left behind from earlier settlers of my current home. Some of the items are small and some rather large. Most I know what I have unearthed, but a few I really have no clue what they are.

Each year the rains seem to produce a new batch of discovers. Here are a few of the items I have uncovered in this past two years.

This next batch I found just three days ago.

I am still trying to figure out what the little blue rubbery square with what looks like a moon in the corner actually is. It isn't an eraser.

This week I will be out in the garden again. Who knows what else I will find.